New details on tipoff to MİT on July 15

Daily Yeni Şafak had a headline story on May 20 by Osman Ozgan with the title: "Here is that major's statement," triggering new debates. We knew that a major, identified only as O.K., personally went to the headquarters of the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) in Ankara's Yenimahalle district on the afternoon of July 15, 2016 to warn them about the preparations of the coup. What we didn't know was that one month later Major O.K. gave a statement to the Ankara Prosecutor's Office on August 11 about the incident. 

It is thought-provoking that his statement has not been used, up to now, in any of the indictments drafted regarding July 15. 

The informer major was first dismissed from the army after the failed coup attempt, then was returned to his post; later he became a staff member of MİT. 

One of the striking segments of the major's statement is that he went to the MİT headquarters at 2:20 p.m.; he was interrogated by two people at around 2:30 p.m. Then, the interrogators became three, then four. There is about one and a half hours between the start of the interview and the conveying of this knowledge to the Chief of General Staff's Office.   

Major O.K. told the prosecutor that he was called to duty on July 13 while he was vacationing in Akçay. When he arrived at his office, he was told that there was going to be a night flight. Major Deniz Aldemir told him, "I will go and get Hakan Fidan [MİT Undersecretary] with a helicopter. You will fly with pilot lieutenant colonel Murat Polat. There will be bloodshed." 

In his statement, he said that when they asked him what was going to happen in MİT he said, "I told them that this may be a major activity; moreover it could be a coup activity. Because they have said 'there...